August 16, 2018
Today I am exploring what happens to failed ICO’s and the world of Dead Coins (Aka Vulnerable Coins / Depreciated Coins / Depressed Coins / Failed Coins / Scam Coins). “The most common “dead coin” is a coin that never lived! 🙂” – Coinopsy.com Some interesting metrics and highlights. Hey Google, tell me about dead coins… As of August 2018, there are currently an estimated to be around 1,000 dead cypto coins aka ‘shit…
August 3, 2018
I was nerding out with my brother Benson (super tech nerd working as the Operations Engineer at Mozilla FireFox) last night and we were having a discussion about blockchain wallets and how to pre-launch one without a blockchain. 10 minutes into my creative rant on how to build traction for Quantaloop, he stopped me and asked ‘What do you think a wallet is?’. As simple as that sounds, I took…
July 20, 2018
When it comes to the cryptocurrency space, one way you can readily make passive income “while you sleep” is through hosting a the buzzword “masternode”. Masternode is simply a server on a decentralized network aka. a cryptocurrency full node or computer wallet. just like how Bitcoin have full nodes which is always up and running, masternodes keep a full copy of the blockchain in real-time and can be used to…
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July 18, 2018
In my learning of tokenomics, today I am tackling some online research of stable coins. Here are my summary highlights for those of you also exploring whether a stable coin is right for your token economy or not: At the moment, stable coins are seen as highly ambitious and highly experimental. As such, there is not one perfect stable coin out there with 100% successful implementation. A stablecoin claims to…
May 19, 2018
Why Blockchain is more than just Cryptocurrency Put aside all your cryptocurrency thoughts for a second. Yes, I know even grasping the concept of Bitcoin wasn’t easy, but Blockchain is far greater than just cryptocurrencies. To be able to understand the vast impact that Blockchain will have, try to compare it to the internet. Just like how email was the first use of the internet, as Blockchain scales and gets…
April 11, 2018
Glossary of common blockchain terms – from the Quantaloop Whitepaper & extended. API: An application program interface that specifies how software components should interact and communicate with each other. Asset: Anything of value or potential value. Block: Blocks are packages of data that carry permanently recorded data on the blockchain network.Refers to a collection of data related to transactions that are bundled together with a predetermized size and are processed for…
March 29, 2018
All this talk about blockchain and all it’s benefits and earth shaking disruption future internet, bitcoin this and Ethereum that, what really is up with this technology? Why is blockchain so raved about and why are so many people on the internet and financial space raising an eyebrow to it? Why all the hype around something that is seemingly just another technology? What is the actual need behind blockchain? Do…
